Michael Shannon (pediatrician)

Michael Shannon (ca. 1953 – March 10, 2009) was an American pediatrictoxicologist who specialized in the effect of toxins and poisonous substances in children. A dancer since his days in college, Shannon was known as the "dancing doctor".

Medical career

A professor at Harvard Medical School, he was the first African-American to be named a full professor of pediatrics at the institution when he was named to the post in November 2004. Shannon had also been the first African American to serve as a division chief at Children's Hospital Boston and had served as chief of both the emergency medicine and clinical pharmacology departments since being added to the staff of the hospital in 1983. He achieved board certification in medical toxicology, emergency medicine, pediatrics, and pediatric emergency medicine.

Plot: Diane, a young and attractive archaeologist, gets to know Dr. Neal Hogan in the secret archives at the Vatican. Both of them are interested in the great mystery that Diane's father, the famous scientist Dr. Shannon, must have uncovered in Africa -- because since that time her father has not been seen by a living soul. Nevertheless, Diane is absolutely convinced that her father is still alive: he was looking for the "tower of the first born", which according to ancient records is supposed to lead to "great wisdom". Ignoring her friends' warnings, Diane decides to travel off in search of her father and find the legendary tower. Also in search of the monument -- which has contained secret knowledge about space and time for millennia -- are a sheik's horde of wild desert riders, as well as a heavily-armed group of soldiers under the command of the brave officer Léon. Together with her protector Rashid, an mysterious prince of the desert and old friend of her father's whom she knows from her youth, Diane withstands great dangers, and finally comes face-to-face with her missing father...

Shannon, Michael Filmography

Shannon, Michael Filmography

Famous quotes by Michael Shannon:

"They're almost tripling the size of the floor area."

"Children are being exposed to large amounts of pesticides daily throughout their diet -- cumulatively, over the first 5, 10, 15, 20 years of their lives, when they are trying to have their brains, their kidneys, and their liver become perfectly functioning organs, ... These chemicals can interrupt this process."

"Children eat 10, 20, 30 times greater in amount than adults, and they have smaller bodies. So in a milligram-per-pound body weight, they are exposed to much, much more of the pesticide placed on these products compared to an adult,"

"Design is the fundamental creative activity with which we direct our lives, and collectively, the earth's transformation from its original, natural state into our human-made world."

Skarsgard and MichaelShannon star in a six-hour miniseries based on the novel, playing Israeli agents on the hunt for a Palestinian bomber ...Shannon didn’t see any ethical issues with the premise of using a thespian to a root out a terrorist ... do a lot,” Shannon said....

... gist is that a secret agency of Israeli spies, led by Kurtz (MichaelShannon), are tracking down the ringleaders of a Palestinian gang of resistance fighters—terrorists, some would say, especially after the group bombs the home of the Israeli cultural attaché in Bonn, Germany....